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7 10 124 https://www.memory.ctevans.net/files/original/955f326c727098c681dfac643b0c0618.pdf d8d9d4c9fe475705b6cdbd37cc595c30 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kawsar P. Description An account of the resource Bangladesh has seen its share of turmoil since Britain left the sub-continent in 1948, and this family has seen those events first hand. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kawsar P. PDF Search This element set enables searching on PDF files. Text Text extracted from PDF files belonging to this item. Kawsar * I am American Muslim citizen who was born in Bangladesh, to couple from India and Pakistan. The last three generations of my family before me have live through three wars. My family has been a part of the Indian Independence War, Pakistani Independence War and the Bangladeshi Independence War. It is always the survivors who gain or lose the most in the war, same had happened to my family. During 1915-1945 these three countries were all part of a British Colony. With the help of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and many others India was led to its freedom. But within India there were issues; the Indian citizens. India’s population was, and still is, very diverse; there were Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, Sikh, and many other. Diversity in a nation is good, but it wasn’t the case here. Muslims in India didn’t want to be a part of India they wanted their own nation. And when this war broke out my family lost a lot, they were resided in Hindu dominated area in middle of India. Hindus and Muslims just jumped out on the streets and robbed, abused, raped, and killed anyone they would. When it became absolutely unsafe my grandparent, who lived with their parents, all had to relocated to find safer ground. They left behind their home, land, farmland, and farm animals. Many people were killed in this time, including few of my family members. My father’s aunt saw her own son being slaughter and thrown in the well along with many other young males. To find refuge, my family members were all over the Indian map. Some found safe ground in Karachi, West Pakistan and some in Bihar, India and some in Calcutta, India and some in Dhaka, East Pakistan. The ones who moved to Dhaka, which is now the capital of Bangladesh, little did they know, that violent will follow them there too. �In 1971, another war broke out between East and West Pakistan, it was a fight for the national language. Since my family was from India and we spoke Urdu, we are once again on the minority. Once again killing began, this time it was worst. My father’s family was well established at this point, but that didn’t matter because they could speak the Bengali language. Once again everyone moved around trying to find safer place. Again they had to leave their land and house, and everything. Some were able to sell their properties and manage to escape to India or Pakistan; my father’s family was able to do that. But my mother side of the family couldn’t afford to escape, they were forcefully kick out of their own home. They found shelter in a three roomed house, they lived there with seven other family. There would be few days in a row when no one ate anything. My mother’s youngest sister died out of hunger at the age of nine months and her oldest brother was killed at the age of 20. It was a very tough time for them, no one know when they were going to eat the next meal or if they would see the new dawn of the morning. Thankfully the war ended in March 26, 1971, and East Pakistan wasn’t East Pakistan anymore; it was Bangladesh. There were some refugee camps in Bangladesh, for the Urdu speakers. Since my mother’s family lost everything in the war, there we living in refugee camps for few years. Even after the war, for many years Urdu speaks were discriminated against. In 1989, when my mother took my brother to enroll in an elementary school, he was denied admission because we didn’t speak proper Bengali. My parents went though the discrimination, and they didn’t want us to face the same thing, and that is why we moved to American to get better education and get a fair chance at life that they didn’t get. � https://www.memory.ctevans.net/files/original/0e7fc42f1bfa328c00cfcd2f005ab4f3.pdf 9f34a0523d9e5ff087d56f73f981b958 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kelly A Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kelly A, Gay Marriage GI Bill https://www.memory.ctevans.net/files/original/c7656f56834ae133195e2cb609c3dbc3.pdf 81ef4638a065ac0e29b6fcc7c29abc19 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kenneth S. Description An account of the resource Pittsburgh during and after World War II Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kenneth S. https://www.memory.ctevans.net/files/original/04e8b8d5fe1e78b910c0006787520cfd.pdf 1c6e87c6a14531efa8707c1e1fcbb7d7 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kevin N. Description An account of the resource Family from El Salvador and impact of the civil war there. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kevin N. El Salvador https://www.memory.ctevans.net/files/original/bd112083e6c51f9e6b195b56dbdbdb86.pdf 64bb6fc4504144f85b3965bfdbe41b40 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Khanh T. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Khanh T. Vietnam https://www.memory.ctevans.net/files/original/5953c6abf165b55be083af22829beeed.pdf 4b213e4c8e44f390566d00a771750870 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kimberly P. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kimberly P. Virginia https://www.memory.ctevans.net/files/original/70fa22e74f0c24acb8baa691c538b1a6.pdf c6a658874d3d59119ef3f91e79cdba06 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kristen R. Description An account of the resource Living in northeastern Pennsylvania, this family lived through the economic depression that swept the area in the 1970s (along with the destruction of Hurricane Agnes). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kristen R. PDF Search This element set enables searching on PDF files. Text Text extracted from PDF files belonging to this item. Kristen *  Before I start my family’s short timeline of events I would like to explain some gaps, in  our family tree. I believe that this will give you better insight as to why I am choosing to write  about some key family members that although they have had a direct affect on my life, they  would not necessarily be seen as a direct linage (ei: my great uncle).  My mother and her siblings were separated when they were very young; my mother  was left in the care of her grandparents because of her tender age of nine months old. Her two  older siblings were said to be in care of my grandfather, an alcoholic, who later returned only to  leave the older two children in the care of my great grandmother. My maternal grandmother  was said to have had a mental break and after leaving my grandfather did not return or make  any further contact. So for the purposes of this report, please understand that those who have  information seem unwilling to diverge more than the fact that my grandfather James Pryce was  a vet of the Korean War and had an issue with alcohol. Though it may sound sad, it is what it is,  as they say.   Originally from the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, both my maternal and paternal  sides have long and extensive roots in business and family. With both families immigrating pre‐  World War II the ability to track family members during this time was quite simple. I have only  one direct relative who was a participant in World War II that returned home to Wilkes‐Barre,  Pa. my grandfather Joseph *. He enlisted at the age of seventeen and was assigned as a cook  for a naval ship. Upon his return to Wilkes‐Barre, he opened his first restaurant with help from  a cousin. Coming from an Italian American family they worked off of general family receipts and  �opened strictly for breakfast and lunch, providing a deli like environment for the department  stores and local companies of the main business square. In 1951 my grandfather married a first  generation Russian‐ American Sofia O*, together they would go on to open three restaurants  and have three children one of which is my father Richard *.  During this same time frame my maternal family, of Welsh decent, was making their pre  and post war contributions by working in the ever slowing coal mines of Northeastern  Pennsylvania. In the late 1800's and early 1900's thousands of immigrants relocated to the  region to work the anthracite coal mines. This transformed the Wyoming Valley from a small  farming area to a metropolis, but after the war, the industry slowed and many workers needed  to redirect their employment efforts. Bertram *, though not quite of retirement age was  relieved of his duties in the early 1950’s from the mines; from here I do not have an accurate  account of his working history.  In 1970 he passed away of a heart attack in his sleep, leaving his  wife Loretta and oldest son Bertram Jr. to financial support the three young children. Bertram  was able to help support his mother with financial affairs by the running of a local gas station  which later purchased and ran for twenty years. My mother the youngest of the three children  would continue to have these two family members be her support system till she married.  On June 23, 1972, tropical storm Agnes swept through the area. In her path, the storm  left nothing but destruction. A total of eighteen inches of rain left 25,000 homes nearly  destroyed, and $1 billion in damages. The river rose to 40.9 feet, 18.9 feet above flood stage,  although 2,278 businesses in Wilkes‐Barre were damaged by the 9 feet of water that flooded  the square, may areas where able to rebound. Unfortunately the family’s restaurants were not  �one of them. Without the proper insurance for the businesses the family had to start over. The  new concept was to keep things simple and The Hut was opened. This location catered to the  Wilkes and King’s College students providing burgers and light fare.  This location later closed in  the late 1988, putting them out of the restaurant business again. On quite literally the other  side of town the * family worked at rebuilding their gas station. The building set slightly higher  and inland did not receive as much damage and was opened back to full capacity rather quickly.   My parents meet in the early 1980’s, my father became the owner and operator of the  Wyoming Valley’s first gym that later expanded to a fitness center and health club. With the  growing demand for a health country and awareness on the rise for health matters my father  had a very successful thirty‐one years in the industry before selling his establishment this year.  My mother left college at the age of twenty to pursue a family life, though she did not complete  her degree she made great advancements in the medical field.   I often think our lives on paper are quit boring. For me it is the makeup of our family  dynamic that must truly be seen in person that makes for the best stories. It is our dramas, our  ups and downs and personal hardships that just could not fit in the confines of a few pages. The  best I can give you here are the mile stones to which we reached, and our most notable  through our work ethic. I hope this provides you with some insight in to a family that stems  from a small area where most people have lived died and never really left.   � https://www.memory.ctevans.net/files/original/a3226faf5c1cc3a0c5bb52bb920dba39.pdf 6107328670b5fa492edb3a99e3bcc119 Document A resource containing textual data. 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Description An account of the resource Immigrants from Eastern Europe, the family toiled through all kinds of jobs to be successful in the United States. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lori F. Pittsburgh https://www.memory.ctevans.net/files/original/19068d43efa48a394bb94b4c5bb93881.pdf f201f7a12bfd0e71798dd385280c2c8c Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Louise J. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Louise J. Great Depression